{"id":19591,"date":"2026-01-28T15:58:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=19591"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:54:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:54:26","slug":"heather-barrett","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/profile\/heather-barrett\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Barrett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Barrett (she\/her) has taught in the CAS Writing Program since 2010. She served as CAS Writing Center Coordinator from 2017-2022, and as the program\u2019s first Associate Director for the Writing Center from 2022-2024. In 2021, she was the recipient of the College of Arts &amp; Sciences Award for Distinction in First Year Undergraduate Education, as well as the Mentor of the Year award from the Student Employment Office.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Barrett\u2019s research and teaching interests include nineteenth-century American literature, Gothic fiction, queer theory, and gender and sexuality studies. Her work has been published in <em>ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance<\/em> and <em>WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Barrett currently teaches WR 120: Literary Gender &amp; Sexuality and WR 151: Gothic Gender &amp; Sexuality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25775,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20003,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19591\/revisions\/20003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}